Murder of the mayor of Ocros
The mayor of Ocros was assassinated by the Shining Path PCP in 1989, shortly after the assassination of the provincial mayor of Huamanga. This crime was part of the subversive strategy of eliminating local authorities in Ayacucho.
The mayor of Ocros was assassinated by the Shining Path PCP shortly after the murder of the provincial mayor of Huamanga, Fermín Asparrent, in September 1989. This crime was part of a systematic strategy of the PCP-SL to eliminate local authorities in the Ayacucho region. The assassination took place in a context of intense urban and rural violence, where both municipal authorities and public officials were frequent targets of the subversive organization. This type of action sought to dismantle the power of the State at the local level and generate a vacuum of authority that the PCP-SL tried to fill with its own power structures.